Sleep – The Shortest Step Between Hope and Despair
“Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the…
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More than Bodies are Injured in War
A gift this ANZAC day was the announcement by the federal government that, after five years of campaigning, the parliament…
Read moreIt Takes a Village to Protect a Child
Filicide, the murder of a child by their parent is perhaps one of the most distressing events for a community…
Read moreCould it (or should it) be ADHD?
It has long been recognised that psychiatric diagnoses are powerfully influenced by social and temporal factors with some favoured in some…
Read moreYou Can’t Ignore the Couple Relationship
When parents present a child for therapy the implicit and sometimes explicit request is to focus on ‘the person with…
Read moreWhat Has the Pandemic Done to Families?
Much has been written over the past year of the detrimental impact on individual, couple and family mental health and…
Read moreClose but Distant
When the pandemic hit early in 2020 plans initially ground to a halt and it soon became clear to the executive…
Read moreAuthority, Responsibility & Diagnosis
Problems, symptoms, and dynamics appear in batches and recently I have encountered a challenging dynamic working with young people. The…
Read moreIf Only it Were Simple
Children’s books are comforting. Even those that address highly painful and difficult issues like John Boyne’s The Boy in the…
Read moreViolence in the House
We have long been aware of the dangers of home for women but to discover that the house of our…
Read moreWe’re Better Together
‘In 1623 when seriously ill, John Donne, the English poet wrote ‘No man is an island entire of itself; every man…
Read moreWhat if they can hear me?
What if they can hear me? The sanctity and privacy of the therapeutic conversation has been an underpinning principal to…
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